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| Oct 14, 2022 | Nigeria: Tech Startups Hopeful As Govt Plans U.S.$75 Billion Investment in E-Commerce | Tech startups in Nigeria are hopeful for expansion following the federal government's plan to increase investments in the e-commerce sector to $75 billion by 2025.
The minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, at a re... |
| Oct 11, 2022 | Nigeria Ranks 86th in the World By Digital Quality of Life - Study | Nigeria has been ranked 86th in this year's Digital Quality of Life Index with respect to digital well-being, a study by cybersecurity company, Surfshark, has shown.
The fourth edition of the annual report covered 117 countries, or 92% of t... |
| Oct 4, 2022 | Nigeria: 9Mobile Mentors Business Start-Ups in Abuja | The 9mobile telecommunications company has mentored entrepreneurs with small and medium-scale businesses on tips to grow and improve their business using the company's HACK platform.
Speaking to journalists during the second phase of the me... |
| Aug 25, 2022 | Nigeria: MTN Rolls Out 5G Across 190 Sites, Targets More Cities | MTN Nigeria yesterday rolled out the fifth generation (5G) mobile network across 190 sites making it the first of telecommunication service provider to do so in Nigeria.
MTN won the auction for the 3.5GHz 5G spectrum alongside Mafab Communi... |
| Aug 18, 2022 | Nigeria: 5G to Usher in a New World for Nigerians - MTN | The Chief Executive Officer of MTN Group, Ralph Mupita, has declared that the 5G license won by MTN Nigeria will usher in a new world of opportunities.
Speaking in an interview on Arise TV's Global Business Report, the group CEO gave an ind... |
| Jul 13, 2022 | Nigeria Records 7 Million New Broadband Subscribers in 7 Months | SUB: Nigeria's broadband penetration recorded a quantum leap in the last seven months from November 2021 with a record of seven million new subscriptions, indicating...
Nigeria's broadband penetration recorded a quantum leap in the last sev... |
| Jul 10, 2022 | Nigeria: How Fintechs Put Nigeria On Global Map Despite Economic Woes | For half a decade, the financial services sector has changed dramatically, yet it seems to remain hot and evolving. Like a wildfire, what started with e-Tranzact and Interswitch as simple solutions to payment inefficiencies has ballooned in... |
| Jun 24, 2022 | Nigeria: Hisbah Moves to Regulate Social Media in Kano | The Kano State Hisbah Board is currently making moves to regulate social media.
To this end, the board is in collaboration with Kano State Censorship Board (KSCB).
Ismail Na'abba Afakallah, Executive Director of KSCB, disclosed this in an i... |
| Jun 23, 2022 | Nigeria to Rollout 5G Spectrum By August | The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said it will roll out the Fifth Generation (5G) technology in August.
The Executive Vice Chairman, NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, said this at the 90th Edition of Telecom Consumer Parliament (TCP)... |
| Jun 15, 2022 | Nigeria: The New Move to Regulate Social Media Platforms in Nigeria | The federal government through the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) on Monday issued a new internet code entitled a "Code of Practice for Interactive Computer Service Platforms/Internet Intermediaries and Cond... |
| Jun 10, 2022 | Nigeria: Buhari Inaugurates Council On Digital Economy, E-Govt | President Muhammadu Buhari has promised that his administration will continue to take advantage of digital technologies to transform every sector of the economy.
The President made the promise while inaugurating the Presidential Council on ... |
| May 18, 2022 | Africa: 60 Start-Ups Across Africa to Get $4m Google Fund | Tech giant, Google is committing $4million to 60 eligible start-ups across Africa as applications open for the second cohort of the 'Google for Start-up Black Founders Fund for Africa'.
Google for Startups Black Founders Fund was launched i... |
| May 11, 2022 | Nigeria: Govt's Executive Order 5 and Technology Innovation in Nigeria | Deepening knowledge-based economy that is innovation-driven and ensuring rapid movement of Nigeria towards becoming an industrialised nation are the two most important elements missing in the country's quest towards attaining economic buoya... |
| May 2, 2022 | Nigeria: Centre Celebrates 'Girls in ICT Day' | The Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has partnered Dala Ina Mafita to celebrate the 2022 International Girls In ICT Day by organising a training on career opportunities for girls.
Observed in more than 166 countries... |
| Apr 20, 2022 | Nigeria: Improving Technology Innovation in Nigeria | Many African countries, including Nigeria, have not so fortunate in the area technological innovation when compared with most countries in Europe, North America and Asia. And technology experts said for Nigeria to build a fundamental innova... |
| Apr 7, 2022 | Nigeria: Subscribers Count Losses As Govt's Directive to Bar Lines Subsists | Telecommunication users whose telephone lines have been barred due to their inability to link their numbers to a National Identity Number (NIN) have been counting their losses since Monday, April 2, 2022, following a federal government dire... |
| Apr 5, 2022 | Nigeria: Govt Directs Telcos to Bar Calls On Unlinked Lines | The federal government has directed all the telecommunications operators in the country to bar outgoing calls on all unlinked mobile lines with effect from Monday, April 4, 2022.
A joint statement by the Nigerian Communications Commission (... |
| Mar 31, 2022 | Nigeria: Govt Extends NIN-SIM Linkage for 'Few Days' | The Federal Government has urged Nigerians and legal residents of the country to use "the next few days" to ensure that they complete their NIN-SIM linkage.
In a statement jointly signed by the Director, Public Affairs, Nigerian C... |
| Mar 31, 2022 | Nigeria: MTN, Globacom, Others Threaten to Increase Tariffs | Telecommunication Operators, including Globacom, Airtel, MTN and others, have threatened to raise tariffs if the Federal Government does not resolve critical issues currently affecting the industry.
Speaking on behalf of the telecos at a pr... |
| Mar 30, 2022 | Nigeria, Untapped Market for Fiber Optics Investments - Report | The findings of a joint study by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and EDHECinfra, a venture of the renowned international EDHEC Business School, has revealed that large markets such as Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Brazil and parts of Asia hav... |
| Mar 23, 2022 | Nigeria: MTN Names New Chief Operating Officer for Nigeria, Appoints Others | The MTN Group has announced senior leadership appointments to operating companies in Nigeria, Iran and Sudan, all of them internal candidates.
"Today's announcement demonstrates the depth of talent within the group, as well as the stre... |
| Mar 15, 2022 | Nigeria: Internet Fraudsters Now Use My Medical Condition to Scam People - Kemi Afolabi | Popular Nigerian actress and filmmaker, Kemi Afolabi has raised the alarm that some internet fraudsters are exploiting her medical condition to scam people.
The actress shocked her friends, family and fans as she revealed that she had been ... |
| Mar 13, 2022 | Nigeria: Lagos Gets Free Online Library With Over 300, 000 Resources | A Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) based in Lagos, Zacchaeus Onumba Dibiaezue Memorial Libraries (ZODML), has launched its free online library to deepen access to free educational resources.
The online library has access to over 300,000 online... |
| Mar 2, 2022 | Africa: I Want to Revolutionise Africa's Tech Space, Says 24-Year-Old Nigerian Engineer | Àgbà Akin is raising a generational talent of techies by tutoring young Nigerians programming for free on social media, using his Twitter, where he has more followers.
Born Akinola Abdulakeem Akinade, the 24-year-old software engineer and t... |
| Aug 19, 2020 | Positioning your startup to survive and thrive during COVID-19, depreciating naira | Share this article:
Struggling businesses, rising unemployment and contracting GDP’s are the natural consequences of global economic crisis. Collectively, the dot-com bubble burst of the early 2000’s, and the Global Financial Crisis of 2008... |
| Jul 13, 2020 | Nigeria Welcomes Its First Bitcoin ATM Courtesy Of Blockstale | Nigeria has gotten its first Bitcoin Automated Teller Machine (ATM), thanks to blockchain software and hardware development firm Blockstale.
Daniel Adekunle, the CEO of Blockstale, explains that the purpose of the BATM is to make the exchan... |
| May 20, 2020 | Nigerian agric company, Tomato Jos raises €3.9 million for irrigation and processing plant | Tomato Jos, a Nigerian agric company, has closed a Series A round of €3.9 million. The funding will be deployed into the processing and distribution of tomato products, the company has said.
Located in Kaduna, a city about 190km from Nigeri... |
| Oct 28, 2019 | Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy: What’s in a name change? | Share this article:
From 1999 to 2010, Nigeria’s ICT sector was under the umbrella of the Ministry of Information and Communications. In 2011, it was split and the Ministry of Communications Technology was birthed. In 2015, it was simply re... |
| Oct 24, 2019 | What’s in a name? Questions arising from Nigeria’s newly-minted Ministry of Digital Economy | Isa Pantami has scored what should be considered, even by cynics, an interesting branding goal. By getting president Buhari to rename his portfolio to include “Digital Economy”, the Minister placed a stamp of his vision for Nigeria’s commun... |
| Sep 16, 2019 | “Nigeria Air will be delivered as planned” — Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika | Share this article:
Last year, despite a budgetary allocation of ₦1.45 billion ($4.01 million), the Nigerian government revealed its decision to temporarily suspend the National Carrier Project. But it appears the project is back on track, ... |
| Oct 5, 2018 | Social Media Roundup: Nigeria at 58 | Share this article:
On Monday, October 1, 2018, Nigeria celebrated 58 years of independence. Here’s how Nigerians observed the day on social media.
Celebrating Nigeria
For the love of our dear country, Nigeria.💚 #NigeriaAt58 #NID18 pic.twit... |
| Jul 27, 2018 | Has Andela Disrupted Nigeria’s Computer Science Curriculum? | Run by Methodist missionaries at the time, Nigeria’s first primary school opened in Badagry, Lagos in 1843, marking the beginning of formal education in Nigeria. Then came the CMS grammar school (also in Lagos) in 1859 and by 1914 there wer... |
| Jun 25, 2018 | Accounteer wins 2018 MEST Entrepreneur challenge | Share this article:
Pan-African entrepreneurial training programme, seed fund and incubator MEST closed its third successful MEST Africa Summit last week Thursday.
The three-day event, which took place in Cape Town South Africa, culminated ... |
| Jun 19, 2018 | Bankers’ Committee plans to on-board 40m Nigerians into the financial system | Share this article:
That only 40% of adults in Nigeria is included in the financial system is a threat to the target of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to have 80% inclusion within the next two years.
The umbrella body of Nigerian banks’ ... |
| Jun 12, 2018 | NASRDA unveils Automated Irrigation System to help water farms remotely | Share this article:
During a courtesy visit to the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, a delegation of the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASDRA) unveiled its solar-powered Automated Irrigation System.
The... |
| Jun 8, 2018 | You will start enjoying data rollover from June 26 | Share this article:
One of the major issues that telecom subscribers in Nigeria complain about is the inability to carry over unused data to a new subscription.
According to Daily Trust, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has give... |
| May 8, 2018 | Why Ebonyi State government has banned mobile phones in its state house | Share this article:
The Ebonyi State government has banned the use of phones, laptops, iPads, voice recorders and electron magnetic devices in its state house.
According to a report in The Daily Trust, the ban means electronic equipments wi... |
| Apr 26, 2018 | ICT projects in Nigeria got $50 million boost from development banks in 5 years | Share this article:
According to a recent report by the World Wide Web Foundation and Alliance for Affordable Internet, global and regional Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) invested about $50 million in Information and Communications T... |
| Mar 23, 2018 | Social Media Roundup: Bill Gates in Nigeria | Share this article:
Yesterday, Bill Gates, philantropist and founder of the Microsoft Corporation arrived Nigeria to see the first-hand progress the country is making on primary healthcare provision, polio eradication, nutrition and financi... |
| Mar 15, 2018 | Why credit and financing still remain the bane of SMEs in Nigeria | Share this article:
A 2015 report put the number of small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria at 37 million. Over the years, the number has increased significantly.
A lot of SMEs have also died within this same period and the one... |
| Mar 12, 2018 | Despite a ₦20 billion ICT allocation to its agencies in 2017, the Nigerian government is not fully online | Share this article:
In February we reported that the Office of the Secretary General of the Federation(OSGF) had purportedly spent ₦65 million last year on maintaining its already existing website. Apparently the OSGF’s website isn’t the on... |
| Sep 6, 2017 | Solar energy: Nigeria’s best shot at eradicating its electricity problem | Share this article:
In March 2017, some nursing mothers protested at a hospital in Rivers State over the death of their babies as a result of a power outage at the hospital.
“My child was okay before they took light, but three hours after t... |
| Jun 7, 2017 | How to stop electricity ‘piggybacking’ | Share this article:
Ever been a victim of electricity ‘piggybacking’ in your area? You pay for the usage of power and your neighbour or someone from another compound illegally connects to your power source without your permission or your kn... |
| May 4, 2017 | How relevant is NIPOST? | Share this article:
Although, operational in the year 1852, when the British colonial masters established the first post office. The Nigerian postal service (NIPOST) became a government department in 1985, January 1st to be precise. This wa... |
| Mar 8, 2017 | UPDATE: Etisalat Nigeria takeover halted, thanks to NCC and CBN | Share this article:
UPDATE on 11th March, 2017: The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) have stepped in to negotiate a suspension of the imminent takeover of Etisalat Nigeria. This was announced on Fri... |
| Mar 2, 2017 | Why you have not been able to make calls with your MTN line | Share this article:
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MTN Nigeria subscribers have voiced out difficulties experienced in placing and receiving calls, sending messages and connecting to the internet.
Cant forgive #MTN for the network failure... |
| Jan 17, 2017 | Financial inclusion and the unbanked: The undeniable impact of Digital Financial Services | Share this article:
A few years ago, the number of banks that existed in Nigeria were too few to warrant any inquisition as to who were under-served. But today, we’ve seen both government and private sector players making laudable moves to ... |
| Dec 14, 2016 | UPDATE: The Nigerian Senate did not approve NCC’s data price hike | Share this article:
UPDATE: The Senate hasn’t approved the data price hike by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). The Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Communications, Senator Solomon Adeola made this known in a publication... |
| Nov 3, 2016 | The Nigerian Interbank Settlement System just launched a mobile payment system | A new player is entering into the mobile payment space in Nigeria. Launched today by the Nigeria Interbank Settlement System (NIBSS), it’s been named mCash.
Today is the official press launch of the new payment platform #mCash. Go to https:... |
| Aug 17, 2016 | Securing Nigeria with technology: The case for security cameras | Share this article:
Earlier in the week, Vanguard reported that the U.S. Government is bringing in officials from its Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The FBI and other security experts would provide technical assistance to the Nigeri... |
| Jul 12, 2016 | The Nigerian Government is building a database of vehicle owners; it is not looking promising | Share this article:
The case of data in the effective running of the most populous black nation is one that has received much debate and little to no action from the government especially. Private entities and companies have been making eff... |
| Sep 9, 2015 | Nigeria’s BOI makes $6 million investment commitment to support SMEs | Nigeria’s Bank of Industry (BOI) has announced that it will invest $6 million in small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
DailyTrust reports that the investment will be carried out through a $60 million venture capital fund being raised by Grow... |
